Sometimes the designers (in any company) do very strange things indeed. I have a digital camera with all the buttons perfectly placed, e.g. the zoom button is a nice up/down button exactly where the thumb is when you hold the camera in your right hand. This was the 4th generation of this particular model, and finally everything was good.

Then I bought the 5th generation model, which had almost exactly the same specs - they just bumped the megapixels a bit and increased the number of pixels in the LCD screen. But they also moved around the important buttons. The zoom button is now a very difficult to operate tiny little thing placed far away from anything, and in its place under your thumb is a silly little switch for changing between video and still pictures. Not something you'll operate constantly. And so on.

This camera vendor totally wrecked the design, from one model to the next. I really don't understand what goes on in design departments in some companies.